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In the novel, the Joy Divisions were a group of Jew ish women in the Concentration Camp s during World War II who were kept for the sexual pleasure of Nazi soldiers. Records of organized sexual slavery exist at Auschwitz but not at other camps. {Link without Title} The barracks in which the women were kept were located in distant locations within existing concentration camps, usually close to the front lines. Troops on their way to the front spent a day drinking and molesting underage women. If they were not 'pleased' with their prisoner, they could have her killed. These female prisoners were better fed than other prisoners of the camp, and were enslaved until they died. The origin of Ka-tzetnik's story is not clear. Some say it is based on a Diary kept by a young Jewish girl who was captured in Poland when she was fourteen years old and subjected to enforced Prostitution in a Nazi Labour Camp . However the diary itself has not been located or verified to exist. Others claim that it is based on the actual history of Ka-Tzetnik's younger sister (''The House of Dolls'' is about the sister of Ka-Tzetnik's protagonist, Harry Frelshnik). The book ''Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler's Germany'', a biography of Stella Goldschlag , says she was threatened with being sent to into sexual slavery unless she cooperated with the Nazis. {Link without Title} TRIVIA
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